Yes, give us the machines for free is the advertising is worth so much to the companies that they are willing to be douches about the whole thing. Having to pay AND receive ads is ridiculous and I don't know why some people put up with that sort of abuse.
I had a small motorcycle, and I don't want to ever again. It's dangerous out there, and it's not your own driving you need to be careful of, you have to beware of everyone else who drives crazy. I would regularly have cars pass me in my own lane, tailgatiing was very common, and I always felt like I was low visibility to everyone else. And that was without getting on any freeway.
There is a difference between healthy skepticism and outright mockery of new scientific studies.
Is the economy going to collapse in the near future? Maybe, maybe not, but it's certainly a smart move to diversify. Likewise, is climate change real and can be affected by human interaction? Maybe, maybe not, but the smart move would similarlly be to do something to mitigate the effects (more fuel efficient transportation, less reliance on fossil fuels, preserve forests, etc). But people don't like to hear this; they still put the investments into risky stocks in the hopes of a big payoff, and they still keep expanding farms into rain forests because that makes money.
The problem here is money. People don't like to do anything that might involve spending money or receiving less of it. There was a lot of evidence that the dotcom boom was going to crash, but too many people stuck their heads in the sand rather than give up any of that potential money. Similarly, here people do not want to do anything to address climate change because it's expensive, their oil/coal investments will decline, they don't want the cost of fuel or cars to go up (or cars to get smaller), etc.
Whether it's real or not, whether it's human caused or not, the smart move would be to play it safe instead of becoming even more and more reckless over time. However, once this issue became linked to politics, the game is over. With the extremist us-versus-them political climate in the US, people's political convictions are even more deeply held than their religious convictions (and it's no wonder that politics and religion is being linked, all the more reason to justify one's political stance).
And that is exactly what this study shows which hasn't been shown before: that a small number of extreme events were very likely due to human influence on climate change, and not due to natural extremes that would have occured without human involvement. At the very least read the summary even if you don't follow the links.
Do lots of users use the Apple Store for applications on a Mac? I know the iphone users do, but it seems somewhat rare on the Mac in my experience. So many tools I use are not on the store anyway, the store requires you to have an Apple ID, and it doesn't fit well into a corporate environment.
There are the special cases though. Ie, an older version of Office kept the Windows model of having a "common" directory. Other apps have non trivial files that have to go into "/Library/Application Support". Apple's own products often have a really complicated web of stuff that happens (ie, xcode-select).
Apple should have added some standard way to uninstall though, and I suspect they don't because it would mean acknowledging that not everything fits into the user-friendly application bundle model.
I'm using some eclipse based tools from vendors that are application bundles that do have Java JRE underneath. It does mean a separate copy of JRE for each application which is bulky. It also means that they almost always have an older version of JRE so that the tools are dreadfully slow.
Most "apps" are just directories that are self contained; drag it out of the install media to the install location, and to uninstall you drag it to the trash or delete from the command line.
The few apps that don't fit into that model are the ones that require a package method (ie, files go into both application and library folders). This is reasonably straight forward to install though, but the uninstall is difficult. I often find there's a readme file or a web support page describing how to uninstall and clean up. Otherwise you search the usual suspected directories for remnants to clean up (libraries, documents, application support).
So this new problems seems to be some applications that have loaded kernel extensions which is difficult for the average user to know how to undo. And that's where having a good uninstall script will help, but there's no standard Apple way to do this.
The problem seems to be third party apps get installed easily, but don't refuse to be uninstalled afterwords without a lot of specialized knowledge. This rarely happened in the past I think because most apps didn't use kernel extensions and those that did usually required specialized instructions to install in the first place.
Definitely the error message should be changed to make it clear what's going on. OSX has been getting more inscrutable over time.
Huh, of course they exist? What sort of upscale neighborhood do you live in where you don't know any poor people? There are services in many major cities that will take disabled riders to their destinations for free or at a severely discounted price.
Waiting an extra 20 minutes at a McDonald's when you were trying to get to the grocery store is going to make the passenger HATE McDonald's, and hate the driverless car experience.
Yes, I realize so much money is spent, and I think it's foolish. It's wishful thinking. That piece of plastic with a McDonald's ad is not paying for the entire ride, otherwise we'd be riding for free or at a significant discount. For a $20 taxi ride, how man burgers would you have to buy at McDonald's to bring in an extra $20? That's a lot. And for the taxi driver, they're really getting paid a 3 or 4 digit sum to keep that ad in their taxi for several months. That's a very tiny advertising cost. Paying for an entire driverless car is a much bigger advertising cost.
Also remember that an average global temperature rise of 1 degrees for several years is highly worrisome, and 2 degrees would be major. Those seem like such small numbers because the short term averages vary so much in comparison. The oceans are like big buffers of energy, or capacitors, they totally dwarf the affect of a short term weather event on the north east US coast and balance out the averages over time. If those ocean temperatures go up even slightly it can mean serious effects everywhere.
No, you can't look at just cold temperatures in New England and use that to balance out what happens in the rest of the world. The average temperatures across the entire planet for each year have been going up. New England is not the entire planet. Even if the average temperature for the year in New England does not go up, that is still a very tiny portion of the planet.
Average temperatures for the globe are going up. That does not mean everywhere has their average temperature rising at the same rate. But the data clearly shows temps are higher on average. Thus, global warming. But today people tend to say "climate change" instead otherwise ignorant people will look at record snowfalls and such as "proof" that scientists are crazy.
It had been uncertain whether the extremes in recent years (hurricanes, etc) are due to human caused climate change or were within normal variants. However there was a recent study three specific events to human causes climate change.
Often an airport is out of the city and under county jurisdiction, so you have politics trying to arrange things. Plus the unions for taxis and limos which get the normal service. And then the locals don't want it necessarily, they want local service, and airport service is for the tourists.
Everyone coming off the plane heads for rentals and shuttle usually. Even in San Francisco where I know there's Bart service, I don't necessarily know if it's running that day or how many hours to wait or where to get the tickets and so forth. In that sense, the locals are still more likely to use the transit but it's not a common thing.
For vegas with so many tourists, the airport service makes more sense, the locals can get around easily enough anyway there. Discount the service so tourists are tempted to use it, and let their casino losses pay for it.
Public transport needs to go where the public wants to go. The Vegas strip can be walked, even in July. Most people just go one casino at a time anyway, so who's going to do that ride for a 100 yard walk? You're right, take it to the airport and it would be nice. But I suspect there's a big limo union opposed to that.
Not complying is also a right of the citizens. You have a right not to get shot in your own home. Police cannot enter your home without permission or a warrant either. Police should not have the power to issue arbitrary commands and expect citizens to obey them out of fear of their lives.
It's not necessarily easy to comply with orders from a cop. First, they're shouting loudly, not necessarily easy to understand, your hearing may be off, you may not be perfectly fluent in English, etc. Second, you're confused as hell about what is going on and why someone suddenly kicked down your door, you may have just woken up too. Third, your adrenaline is going full blast and so is the cop's. There are so many ways for everything to go wrong at this point, because it's the wrong way to approach this sort of situation.
I'm also thinking there's a problem with funding. FBI has good training, but it's also expensive and much harder to get those jobs (college degree mandatory). Municipal police are on a shoestring budget and most of that goes to inflated pension plans (that ballooned when the economy was good but then became a ball and chain when the economy soured). In some cities there is some dislike between police and city hall over this. Thus no money for training, not enough personnel, recruits get put out in the field early and without veteran oversight, etc.
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Yes, give us the machines for free is the advertising is worth so much to the companies that they are willing to be douches about the whole thing. Having to pay AND receive ads is ridiculous and I don't know why some people put up with that sort of abuse.
I had a small motorcycle, and I don't want to ever again. It's dangerous out there, and it's not your own driving you need to be careful of, you have to beware of everyone else who drives crazy. I would regularly have cars pass me in my own lane, tailgatiing was very common, and I always felt like I was low visibility to everyone else. And that was without getting on any freeway.
What about overall cost though? You're perpetually making a monthly payment with no end.
There is a difference between healthy skepticism and outright mockery of new scientific studies.
Is the economy going to collapse in the near future? Maybe, maybe not, but it's certainly a smart move to diversify. Likewise, is climate change real and can be affected by human interaction? Maybe, maybe not, but the smart move would similarlly be to do something to mitigate the effects (more fuel efficient transportation, less reliance on fossil fuels, preserve forests, etc). But people don't like to hear this; they still put the investments into risky stocks in the hopes of a big payoff, and they still keep expanding farms into rain forests because that makes money.
The problem here is money. People don't like to do anything that might involve spending money or receiving less of it. There was a lot of evidence that the dotcom boom was going to crash, but too many people stuck their heads in the sand rather than give up any of that potential money. Similarly, here people do not want to do anything to address climate change because it's expensive, their oil/coal investments will decline, they don't want the cost of fuel or cars to go up (or cars to get smaller), etc.
Whether it's real or not, whether it's human caused or not, the smart move would be to play it safe instead of becoming even more and more reckless over time. However, once this issue became linked to politics, the game is over. With the extremist us-versus-them political climate in the US, people's political convictions are even more deeply held than their religious convictions (and it's no wonder that politics and religion is being linked, all the more reason to justify one's political stance).
And that is exactly what this study shows which hasn't been shown before: that a small number of extreme events were very likely due to human influence on climate change, and not due to natural extremes that would have occured without human involvement. At the very least read the summary even if you don't follow the links.
Do lots of users use the Apple Store for applications on a Mac? I know the iphone users do, but it seems somewhat rare on the Mac in my experience. So many tools I use are not on the store anyway, the store requires you to have an Apple ID, and it doesn't fit well into a corporate environment.
There are the special cases though. Ie, an older version of Office kept the Windows model of having a "common" directory. Other apps have non trivial files that have to go into "/Library/Application Support". Apple's own products often have a really complicated web of stuff that happens (ie, xcode-select).
Apple should have added some standard way to uninstall though, and I suspect they don't because it would mean acknowledging that not everything fits into the user-friendly application bundle model.
I'm using some eclipse based tools from vendors that are application bundles that do have Java JRE underneath. It does mean a separate copy of JRE for each application which is bulky. It also means that they almost always have an older version of JRE so that the tools are dreadfully slow.
Most "apps" are just directories that are self contained; drag it out of the install media to the install location, and to uninstall you drag it to the trash or delete from the command line.
The few apps that don't fit into that model are the ones that require a package method (ie, files go into both application and library folders). This is reasonably straight forward to install though, but the uninstall is difficult. I often find there's a readme file or a web support page describing how to uninstall and clean up. Otherwise you search the usual suspected directories for remnants to clean up (libraries, documents, application support).
So this new problems seems to be some applications that have loaded kernel extensions which is difficult for the average user to know how to undo. And that's where having a good uninstall script will help, but there's no standard Apple way to do this.
The problem seems to be third party apps get installed easily, but don't refuse to be uninstalled afterwords without a lot of specialized knowledge. This rarely happened in the past I think because most apps didn't use kernel extensions and those that did usually required specialized instructions to install in the first place.
Definitely the error message should be changed to make it clear what's going on. OSX has been getting more inscrutable over time.
Except that Cortan is a Microsoft product and a part of Windows 10. This article is talking about third party apps that won't uninstall.
Huh, of course they exist? What sort of upscale neighborhood do you live in where you don't know any poor people? There are services in many major cities that will take disabled riders to their destinations for free or at a severely discounted price.
Waiting an extra 20 minutes at a McDonald's when you were trying to get to the grocery store is going to make the passenger HATE McDonald's, and hate the driverless car experience.
Yes, I realize so much money is spent, and I think it's foolish. It's wishful thinking. That piece of plastic with a McDonald's ad is not paying for the entire ride, otherwise we'd be riding for free or at a significant discount. For a $20 taxi ride, how man burgers would you have to buy at McDonald's to bring in an extra $20? That's a lot. And for the taxi driver, they're really getting paid a 3 or 4 digit sum to keep that ad in their taxi for several months. That's a very tiny advertising cost. Paying for an entire driverless car is a much bigger advertising cost.
Also remember that an average global temperature rise of 1 degrees for several years is highly worrisome, and 2 degrees would be major. Those seem like such small numbers because the short term averages vary so much in comparison. The oceans are like big buffers of energy, or capacitors, they totally dwarf the affect of a short term weather event on the north east US coast and balance out the averages over time. If those ocean temperatures go up even slightly it can mean serious effects everywhere.
No, you can't look at just cold temperatures in New England and use that to balance out what happens in the rest of the world. The average temperatures across the entire planet for each year have been going up. New England is not the entire planet. Even if the average temperature for the year in New England does not go up, that is still a very tiny portion of the planet.
Average temperatures for the globe are going up. That does not mean everywhere has their average temperature rising at the same rate. But the data clearly shows temps are higher on average. Thus, global warming. But today people tend to say "climate change" instead otherwise ignorant people will look at record snowfalls and such as "proof" that scientists are crazy.
It had been uncertain whether the extremes in recent years (hurricanes, etc) are due to human caused climate change or were within normal variants. However there was a recent study three specific events to human causes climate change.
Often an airport is out of the city and under county jurisdiction, so you have politics trying to arrange things. Plus the unions for taxis and limos which get the normal service. And then the locals don't want it necessarily, they want local service, and airport service is for the tourists.
Everyone coming off the plane heads for rentals and shuttle usually. Even in San Francisco where I know there's Bart service, I don't necessarily know if it's running that day or how many hours to wait or where to get the tickets and so forth. In that sense, the locals are still more likely to use the transit but it's not a common thing.
For vegas with so many tourists, the airport service makes more sense, the locals can get around easily enough anyway there. Discount the service so tourists are tempted to use it, and let their casino losses pay for it.
Public transport needs to go where the public wants to go. The Vegas strip can be walked, even in July. Most people just go one casino at a time anyway, so who's going to do that ride for a 100 yard walk? You're right, take it to the airport and it would be nice. But I suspect there's a big limo union opposed to that.
It sounds like he was proud of himself. In prison first day he's going to walk up to the biggest guy and say "Hey, I'm OG too!"
In this case, these weren't lonely men. They considered themselves "hobbyists".
Beige of course.
Not complying is also a right of the citizens. You have a right not to get shot in your own home. Police cannot enter your home without permission or a warrant either. Police should not have the power to issue arbitrary commands and expect citizens to obey them out of fear of their lives.
It's not necessarily easy to comply with orders from a cop. First, they're shouting loudly, not necessarily easy to understand, your hearing may be off, you may not be perfectly fluent in English, etc. Second, you're confused as hell about what is going on and why someone suddenly kicked down your door, you may have just woken up too. Third, your adrenaline is going full blast and so is the cop's. There are so many ways for everything to go wrong at this point, because it's the wrong way to approach this sort of situation.
I'm also thinking there's a problem with funding. FBI has good training, but it's also expensive and much harder to get those jobs (college degree mandatory). Municipal police are on a shoestring budget and most of that goes to inflated pension plans (that ballooned when the economy was good but then became a ball and chain when the economy soured). In some cities there is some dislike between police and city hall over this. Thus no money for training, not enough personnel, recruits get put out in the field early and without veteran oversight, etc.